This is the point the web standards project emerged in part because of DOM implementations. Yet AOL had some brilliant folk trying to lift it up. Kimmy blessing, Kevin Lawverr, Cindy Li, Eric Meyer, me, many others. Time Warner then outsourced it. That worked not at all ;-)
TomGreen @TomGreen
16 Feb 2023
Replying to @mholzschlag @t
Let’s go even more cringy … Netscape Communicator anyone?

Feb 17, 2023 · 12:21 AM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
Netscape 4 could do things that still aren't possible with modern web tech. Whoever came up with <layer> was a tortured genius.
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Oh my dear brother of many years I would have to take you to task on that. The term at the time was too ambiguous wml was stacked implying layers, we had separate layers of Concepts in the open web stock, Photoshop layers Etc we want to be more specific in semantics lexically
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You are speaking to my very core and part of the reason I think I fell apart so damned hard during 2015 and the decline of the open web as a unification rather than a platform of deceit. It's all still there you know it's us it isn't something amorphous.
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